Nino Vongphachanh is a Casting Director and aspiring TV Writer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University. Nino’s background in casting gives him an adoration for watching and reviewing performances, so journalism is another medium that allows him to voice his enthusiasm to a wider audience. Nino strives to enlighten to world of the importance of diversity on screen with his work, which aligns with The Hollywood Insider’s mission to be the most influential and progressive global entertainment network. Nino enjoys being up-to-date with all current events and trends, helping him create a fresh perspective on the topics he writes about. Keeping an open mind with the goal of promoting awareness in film and television, Nino writes passionately about projects he believes advance the world artistically and culturally.
Jan 26, 2023
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Photo: 95th Oscars 2023
The 95th Academy Awards is finally arriving and has released their nomination list for all categories. On March 12, 2023, fans of Cinema will get to see which films from the riveting 2022 season will leave the Dolby Theatre with an Oscar. Some teams may be leaving with multiple Oscars, as this year’s nomination list is filled with strong candidates that have large cultural impact leading to nominations in many categories.
Leading the 2023 Oscars with 11 nominations is ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The reality-bending multiverse picture was suspected to be up for Best Picture since its early release of March 11, 2022. Since release, ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ fans deny the existence of any film surpassing the quality, creativeness, and originality of anything else released in 2022, and it holds the highest odds of winning the top award of the night. Following The Daniels’s film, the German World War I epic, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ and the dark comedy Irish film, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ each earned nine nominations for the 95th Academy Awards.
The Stacked Lineup for Best Picture
The three leading films found themselves in the top category of the night, Best Picture. Although ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ holds the highest odds of winning, there is plenty of room for an upset as the candidates for this year’s Best Picture is the strongest pool of the decade so far. The sequel that took 13 years to release, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ is also up for the prestigious award. Being the sixth highest-grossing film of all time and the only film to gross over $2 billion since 2019’s ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ it has the popularity contest in the bag. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ joins the James Cameron sequel on the roster of action-film sequels to be nominated in the category.
Based on a true story and written and directed by Sarah Polley, ‘Women Talking’ secured a spot on the list with its powerful subject matter against injustice. The ‘Elvis’ musical biopic featuring Golden Globe winner Austin Butler also made the list. Butler won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture and also earned himself a nomination for Best Actor for the Oscars. Winner of the 2022 Palme d’Or (the highest award granted at the Cannes Film Festival), ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ becomes another satirical comedy narrating the horrors of the privileged and wealthy. ‘The Fablemans,’ directed by Steven Spielberg, who now has the highest total earnings in the worldwide box office with over $10 billion, adds to Spielberg’s long collection of Best Picture and Best Director nominations. Lastly, ‘Tár’ lands a spot on the Best Picture nomination list while giving Cate Blanchett another shot to take home the Oscar for Best Actress.
Viola Davis, ‘Decision to Leave,’ and Other Snubs
For an action-heavy nomination list, it was a shock to see Academy favorite, Viola Davis, earning zero nominations for her fantastic work as the fiercely brave Nanisca in ‘The Woman King.’ In a not-so-surprising snub, the Academy Awards failed to acknowledge the birth and uprising of new scream queen Mia Goth. With her work on ‘X’ and more notably ‘Pearl’ (prequel of ‘X’ that was released the same year), it was a hope for horror fans that Mia Goth would earn some nod in the award show this year, but the Academy Awards does have a tendency to neglect horror films. However, it was a tough year to make it on the 20-actor nomination list as this year was some of the best pieces of Cinema that was released. Florence Pugh failed to make it on the nomination list as well for her performance in ‘Don’t Worry Darling.’ Paul Dano lacked a nomination for his work on ‘The Fablemans.’ Doja Cat was snubbed from what is thought to be an unjust ineligibility for her original song ‘Vegas,’ which was a long-standing chart topper on the Hot 100 and is still charting after 29 weeks. ‘Vegas’ earned Doja Cat a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance.
With the reign of South Korean films in the recent Oscars, it is hard to believe the outrageous snub of ‘Decision to Leave’ was legit. Let alone it did not make Best Picture, but it did not make it to the International Feature Film nomination list, which seemed strange to international film fanatics as it was truly a profound work of art. ‘Nope,’ by film genius Jordan Peele, disappointingly yet not-surprisingly did not score a single nomination. The extraterrestrial horror mystery was expected to at least score a nomination in Best Sound.
Many Firsts for 2023 Oscar Nominations
This year’s list provided many surprising firsts for longtime Hollywood stars and some new talent as well. Within the 11 nominations that ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ scored, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, and Ke Huy Quan all earned their first Oscar nomination. Michelle Yeoh earned her first Golden Globe for Actress in a Musical or Comedy Motion Picture at the 80th Golden Globes held in January of 2023. Ke Huy Quan also won his first Golden Globe for his supporting role in the same picture. Jamie Lee Curtis was nominated for her supporting role in the film but ultimately lost the award to Angela Bassett, who made history as the first ever actor to win a Golden Globe for Marvel Studios. Angela Bassett finds herself in the Oscar nominations for Actress in a Supporting Role alongside Jamie Lee Curtis (‘EEAAO’) and Stephanie Hsu (‘EEAAO’), making her the first actor from a Marvel film to be nominated for an Oscar for her work as Queen Ramonda in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.’
16 out of the 20 nominations in the acting categories for the 2023 Academy Awards were given to first-time nominees. All five nominees in the Best Actor in a Leading Role are first time nominees: Austin Butler (‘Elvis’), Colin Farrell (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’), Brendan Fraser (‘The Whale’), Paul Mescal (‘Aftersun’), and Bill Nighy (‘Living’). The other amazing actors to earn their first Oscar nomination are Hong Chau (‘The Whale’), Kerry Condon (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’), Ana de Armas (‘Blonde’), Brendan Gleeson (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’), Brian Tyree Henry (‘Causeway’), Barry Keoghan (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’), and Andrea Riseborough (‘To Leslie’). Outside of the acting categories, Rihanna also earns her first Oscar nomination for her original song ‘Lift Me Up’ that was composed for ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ and marked her comeback to music since her 2016 album ‘Anti.’
‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’ – Malte Grunert, Producer
‘AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER’ – James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
‘THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN’ – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
‘ELVIS’ – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
‘EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE’ – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
‘THE FABELMANS’ – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
‘TÁR’ – Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ – Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
‘TRIANGLE OF SADNESS’ – Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
‘WOMEN TALKING’ – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
PRODUCTION DESIGN
‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’ – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
‘AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER’ – Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
‘BABYLON’ – Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
‘ELVIS’ – Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
‘THE FABELMANS’ – Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
‘THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE’ – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
‘THE FLYING SAILOR’ – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
‘ICE MERCHANTS’ – João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
‘MY YEAR OF DICKS’ – Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
‘AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT’ – Lachlan Pendragon
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
‘AN IRISH GOODBYE’ – Tom Berkeley and Ross White
‘IVALU’ – Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
‘LE PUPILLE’ – Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
‘NIGHT RIDE’ – Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
‘THE RED SUITCASE’ – Cyrus Neshvad
SOUND
‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’ – Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
‘AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER’ – Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
‘THE BATMAN’ – Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
‘ELVIS’ – David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
VISUAL EFFECTS
‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’ – Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
‘AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER’ – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
‘THE BATMAN’ – Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
‘BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’ – Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ – Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’ – Screenplay – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
‘GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY’ – Written by Rian Johnson
‘LIVING’ – Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ – Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
‘WOMEN TALKING’ – Screenplay by Sarah Polley
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
‘THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN’ – Written by Martin McDonagh
‘EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE’ – Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
‘THE FABELMANS’ – Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
‘TÁR’ – Written by Todd Field
‘TRIANGLE OF SADNESS’ – Written by Ruben Östlund
The 95th Academy Awards will premiere on March 12, 2023 on Disney+.
By Nino Vongphachanh
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Nino Vongphachanh is a Casting Director and aspiring TV Writer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University. Nino’s background in casting gives him an adoration for watching and reviewing performances, so journalism is another medium that allows him to voice his enthusiasm to a wider audience. Nino strives to enlighten to world of the importance of diversity on screen with his work, which aligns with The Hollywood Insider’s mission to be the most influential and progressive global entertainment network. Nino enjoys being up-to-date with all current events and trends, helping him create a fresh perspective on the topics he writes about. Keeping an open mind with the goal of promoting awareness in film and television, Nino writes passionately about projects he believes advance the world artistically and culturally.
Nino Vongphachanh is a Casting Director and aspiring TV Writer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University. Nino’s background in casting gives him an adoration for watching and reviewing performances, so journalism is another medium that allows him to voice his enthusiasm to a wider audience. Nino strives to enlighten to world of the importance of diversity on screen with his work, which aligns with The Hollywood Insider’s mission to be the most influential and progressive global entertainment network. Nino enjoys being up-to-date with all current events and trends, helping him create a fresh perspective on the topics he writes about. Keeping an open mind with the goal of promoting awareness in film and television, Nino writes passionately about projects he believes advance the world artistically and culturally.
Nino Vongphachanh is a Casting Director and aspiring TV Writer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University. Nino’s background in casting gives him an adoration for watching and reviewing performances, so journalism is another medium that allows him to voice his enthusiasm to a wider audience. Nino strives to enlighten to world of the importance of diversity on screen with his work, which aligns with The Hollywood Insider’s mission to be the most influential and progressive global entertainment network. Nino enjoys being up-to-date with all current events and trends, helping him create a fresh perspective on the topics he writes about. Keeping an open mind with the goal of promoting awareness in film and television, Nino writes passionately about projects he believes advance the world artistically and culturally.
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